Holy tiny V8 Batman!!

[Jewce]

I was a participant at the FSAE event that had the WWU V8 engine. They used Honda 250 RR heads, was 550 cc and claimed 16000 RPM. It doesn't make sense though. Why spin an engine that has more internal friction (more piston perimeter and more bearing surface area) 4000 RPM higher than all the teams using 600 cc I4 engines. No doubt it was one of the best visually designed packages I've seen in 7 years of going to the FSAE event, but in the end the car never did more than spit and pop for a few seconds at a time. It didn't have an on board starter so was DQ'd as the rules state that you must have one. It was a shame it didn't run though, as I wanted to hear that puppy scream spinning that high and see how fast the car really was. Most of their other components were done in house as well, including bonded CNC uprights and the fully CNC'd tranny case and rear suspension. The car was set up with a fully stressed engine and tranny the same way an F1 or champ car is.